Meher Baba: Avatar of the Tortoise - Softcover

Lux, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970097409 ISBN 13: 9780970097408

Publisher: Seven Coin Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Kenneth Lux first heard of Meher Baba in 1967. He was finishing his doctorate in psychology at Indiana University and was an assistant professor at the South Bend campus. A friend wrote to him saying, "Have you ever heard of Meher Baba, he's too much for me."

Lux had no idea what his friend was referring to, and only the slightest curiosity about what was meant, but some months later, wandering through the stacks at the Notre Dame library, his eyes caught a book title—God Speaks by Meher Baba. This certainly had to be one of the strangest titles for a book, he thought. God speaks? God? What was this—monumental ego? He opened the book and the frontispiece was a photograph of Meher Baba. He was smiling, fifty or so, with a mustache, looking like an Italian organ grinder or a pizza chef, and sitting on a tiger skin. The photograph seemed as odd to him as the title.

In a world growing increasingly desperate for hope, Lux presents Avatar Meher Baba as the divinely ordained answer to that desperation and the one that the world has been waiting for—whether consciously or unconsciously.

About this title

From the Author:

“This book began when I returned to Maine in August of 1997 from a visit to the tomb of Meher Baba in India. . . . I somehow knew what such a book would be. I would use my life as a lover of Meher Baba to present an account of Meher Baba. My story would tell how I came to grips with Baba and who he is or is supposed to be. My encounter with Baba would, out of necessity, have to be individual, but I am also aware of the paradox that through the individual, we can reach the universal. . . . My story is the story of someone who never met Meher Baba physically, which will be the case for many readers of this book. If Baba is who he is supposed to be, then the physical meeting is not necessary.”

From the Inside Flap:

In a world growing increasingly desperate for hope, Lux presents Avatar Meher Baba as the divinely ordained answer to that desperation and the one that the world has been waiting for—whether consciously or unconsciously.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seven Coin Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0970097409
• ISBN 13: 9780970097408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208